A study in complex ironies: behold the bald man, functioning on something like three hours of low-quality sleep, working on a sinisterly seductive mix tape for a woman he half-dated in 2005. You could get more sensible results by rolling two ten-sided dice and consulting a random chart in your Dungeon Master’s Guide. As an old companero [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Invades Us to the Skin
Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Portrait of an Artist
Posted in Uncategorized on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I scared up some free time today, and I planned to use it to compose an Artist Statement for my upcoming appearance in The Tusculum Review. Incidentally, I’ll be appearing a few steps away from the inimitable Kim Chinquee; how neat is that? Picking up on a cue from the (daunting) model offered by John Estes, I began [...]
“Carcasse, Tu Trembles?”
Posted in advanced navel-gazery, amor fati! on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I’ll begin by getting my geek on. This presupposes that I sometimes take my geek off, which is obviously a figurative manufacture, but bear with me. We won’t get very far if you keep on quibbling.
I play fantasy football, a game of very sober make-believe in which adults contend by picking real football players [...]
The Academic Job Market: English Search Advice (Part VII)
Posted in job market horror! on December 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m running behind (thank you, Public Works, for your mighty fine job of plowing some roads, ignoring others, neglecting corners, piling snow directly in front of otherwise accessible roads, and otherwise making my trip to the coffee shoppe a zany, madcap adventure!), so let’s jump right in.
By now most folks will have learned their MLA fates. Some [...]
Gnifty Gnus
Posted in good gnus! on December 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today is dedicated to idleness, so rather than posting something profound and substantive and narcissistic I’ve simply updated my links. I cannot express how proud and giddy I am to appear in the pages of these fantastic journals, and I want to extend again my thanks to the editors and readers for their kindness and [...]
An Arch Wherethrough
Posted in Uncategorized on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Though I had yet to type anything, WordPress credited me with a word count of 7. I will attempt to fathom this mystery later.
It’s 9:00 on the dot as I launch this post, and the day promises to be an exceedingly long one. I had stocked the hours with errands to keep me busy, but the preponderance [...]
That is quality, is it not?
Posted in amor fati!, book-larnin' on December 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Have I dropped a little Beckett on you? Oh yes, it seems I have.
Today will involve advanced tricksiness, as I’ve still got to find some magical way to systematize thirteen very different essay exams. I’ve managed to put two classes to bed for ‘08, so I have a bit of leisure to dwell on the [...]
Fireflies
Posted in academia, book-larnin' on December 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, here I am on the day of my first final exam and I just caught up with my grading for the semester thus far about 45 minutes ago. That either makes me a banana slug drunk on molasses or a ninja of the space-time continuum. In any case, it’s certainly not the worst place to [...]
The Madding Crowd
Posted in Uncategorized on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I am engaged in an elaborate pantomime of forward motion. It looks a lot like walking against the wind, but it sometimes involves crooning to my rented cat.
I am, as it turns out, ahead of the game, and said aheadnessitude applies to both the wee and the big pictures. I’ve got about 40 [...]
